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Genealogical Coevality in Ancient Babylonian Background

Sumerian King Lists are different in literary genre, scheme and purpose from the genealogies of the Hebre w Bible. The Genealogi es in Genesis 5 and 11 appear to hav e b een arranged s chematica lly. The chr ono logies befo re exod us are approx im ate. There are onl y about 3-4 oral tradition belts from Adam to Moses in spite of about 2,500 years(creation to the time of Moses) by MT. The salvation history could have been passed down through father-son link by the oral tradition. Based on MT, we can build a genealogical links of patriarchs and their coexistence with succeeding generations. Adam lived with his eight generations at the same time. He was contemporaneous even with Lamech, the father of Noah for 56 years. Noah and Shem survived for hundreds of years after the flood, even to Terah, father of Abraham. There were unbroken lines of oral tradition based on the Babylonian examples like Gilgamesh epic and Mesopotamian legal texts, i.e., Hammurabi code. Both are the combined final forms of oral and written traditions, handed down through hundred years in the ancient Near East. First any important events or figures are told to later generations by oral tradition, then written tradition is also in the process, then both traditions are merged in a certain times, to be culminated by the final forms of written texts or traditions. Though there might be some manipulations and changes in Hebrew manuscripts, but the coevality between generations is quite clear as we try to figure out the actual birth and death of patriarchs, especially in the light of oral traditions of ancient Babylon.